PHOTOS: CARA MUND 'MISS AMERICA 2017'

Cara Mund, representing North Dakota is now the reigning  Miss America 2017 . During last night's competition that held at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall, Cara emerged victorious through a series of swimsuit and talent contests, onstage speeches and two rounds of interviews by judges.

Miss America 2016, Savvy Shields,  placed the crown on the 23-year-old teary-eyed successor's head as the new Miss America accepted applause and cheers from the audience and judges.

  In one of her onstage interviews, she said President Trump was wrong to withdraw the U.S. from the climate accord aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.

PRESIDENT BUHARI HOSTS OONI-EMIR-SULTAN & OTHER TRADITIONAL RULERS IN ABUA

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice -President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, hosted the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria,today at the State house in Abuja.

In attendance were the Ooni of Ife, Alayeluwa Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar (IV), and the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi among other traditional leaders.

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DINO MELAYE RECALL PROCESS CAN NOW CONTINUE~~ ABUJA HIGH COURT

An Abuja High Court has just dismissed Melaye's suit which sought to stop his recall process.
The Senator who represents Kogi West in the upper legislative chamber had approached the court in June of 2017; in a bid to stop his recall.

On June 21, 2017, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) confirmed that it had received the signatures from Melaye's constituents.The commission then slated August 19 for the verification of the signatures from Kogi West.

Melaye thereafter proceeded to the Abuja High court claiming that the petition contained the names of dead people.  to halt the recall process. The Judge then asked INEC to halt the recall process pending determination of Melaye's application.

In its ruling today, the High Court said contrary to Melaye's application which stated that he hadn't been granted fair hearing, the constitution doesn't require a special provision that compels INEC to grant the senator fair hearing.

The court,  presided over by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, thereafter ruled that Melaye be handed the recall petition, schedule of signatures attached to the petition and the list of persons who want the senator recalled, within two weeks.

By today's ruling, the Melaye recall process will now pick up from where it had stopped before the judiciary was brought into the unfolding scenario.

UPDATE: NIGERIAN MAN CHOCKED SELF TO DEATH AFTER SWALLOWING DRUGS~~SOUTH AFRICA POLICE

The death of a 36-year-old Nigerian man in Vryheid, South Africa has taken a new turn following allegations that he was killed by police in a xenophobic attack.

Aggrieved Nigerians claimed that Kingsley Ikeri was tortured and suffocated to death by the police who were conducting a drug raid on August 30.

According to Emeka Okoye, a friend of Mr Ikeri, who was arrested with him on the same day, the police took Mr Okoye to his house, they put a plastic over his face and handcuffed his legs and hands for over an hour and thirty minutes.

Recalling the story Mr Okoye narrated to Channels Television,  that he had never experienced anything like the ordeal before and that he nearly died. “Even now, if I cough, I cough out blood,” said Mr Okoye.

Mr Okoye said that the police then took him to the cells and took Ikeri away for, what he believes, was the same tortured.

However, the inquest investigation at the Ulundi police station,South Africa, however, tells a completely different story.

According to the police report, Kingsley is said to have died on Saturday, August 26, after choking on what is believed to be a small packet of drugs that he attempted to quickly swallow when police arrived at his house.

According to the statement, members of the Ulundi Public Order Policing unit conducted a drug operation in the Vryheid CBD on Saturday, August 26.

Emeka Okoye was arrested for the possession of drugs and detained. Upon being questioned, Mr Okoye is said to have given the police information regarding another drug dealer residing in East Street, but could not give the police his name.

After taking Mr Okoye to the cells, the police proceeded to the said house with the intentions to search for drugs and make possible arrests.

It is here where they found Kingsley Ikeri, who proceeded to swallow an unknown packet, downing it with a beer as they approached him. He is said to have started choking and members of the police took him to Vryheid Hospital where he was later declared deceased.

An inquest has been opened following his death and samples have been taken for a toxicology report.

The South African Police Service (SAPS) are hoping that the results will prove what really happened during the account and that the necessary steps will then be taken.

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PHOTOS: NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE INTERCEPTS 1100 GUNS @TIN CAN PORT

The Nigeria Customs Service at the Tin-Can Island command has intercepted a 20-feet container marked GESU25255208,which was labeled to be carrying Wash hand basins, from Turkey, actually  carrying 600 pieces of Jojef Magnum Black, Pump rifles, Jojef Magnum Silver pump action rifles, Jojef Magnum plastic single barrel, hunting gun pump action rifles.

Controller General of Customs, Col. Ahmed Alli (rtd) , who was at the command where the guns were intercepted and paraded before newsmen, said one of the agency's officers  believed to have cut the seal of the container without following due process, as well as a clerk  at the command, had been arrested in connection with the discovery.

PHOTO: 3 SUSPECTS ARRESTED FOR KILLING 3 FEMALE STUDENTS IN ONDO FOR RITUALS AND SOLD THEIR BREASTS FOR N15 MILLION!

According to Vanguard,  3 men identified as John Adenitire, aka Emir; Fasayo  Fasanu, aka Abore and Alfa Abdulrafiu aka Tijani have been arrested for killing three female students of Adeyemi College of Education Ondo state. The three students went missing after they left their rented apartments for an unknown destination.


During their confession, they revealed that they killed the students and removed their left breasts and hands after they were promised N5million for each of the breasts and hands by suspected ritualists. They revealed that they buried the remains of their victims in the thick forest.

The suspects claimed that they were yet to receive their payment after delivering the breasts and hands to the man who linked them to the ritualists.

The decomposing bodies of two of the victims, Blessing Oladepo and Mary Oluwasemilore, have been recovered by detectives from the shallow graves where they were buried in the forest after Adenitre was arrested and took the police the members' hideouts

The middleman, identified as Sile, now at large, has been declared wanted by the police while

The place of the burial of the third victim, whose name was not disclosed, was yet to be ascertained by detectives.


After they left home, the victims were said to have been carried on motorbike by Adenitire and Fasanu who posed as Okada riders. At that point, the three girls were believed to have been hypnotised, diverted from their destination and taken to the forest where they were killed.

Tijani, according to sources, was the person who received the breasts and hands removed from the girls bodies and, in turn, gave them to Sile before the middleman disappeared without paying the promised N15million.

POSTERS TO RECALL BUKOLA SARALI POPS UP IN ILORIN!

Trouble may be looming for Senate Presidnet, Bukola Saraki as posters calling for his recall begin to pop up in Ilorin, the Kwara State .

 The circulating poster was designed and shared by a group called 'Kwara Must Change', titled ' Itanje Dopin Ni Ilorin'.  So far, there's no official statement from the group or any response from the office of the Senate President.